Issue with my undergrad

[jerlikescats]

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Hello everybody, this is my first post (if I remember correctly) on SDN. I was wondering what you all think of my current situation. I'm going to try and keep it brief:

I attended post-secondary for software engineering for two years. I maintained a solid 3.8 throughout. Then I graduated and attended university for biomedical engineering. I maintained a 3.0 throughout but decided that I wanted to get out of engineering. I withdrew from BME and declared as a psychology major.

Will this pose any problems for me? I want to study neurology as a graduate student and my dad insists that I withdraw from psychology and declare as a BME again. I suppose I'm just looking for a bit of reassurance. I have several books on the MCAT and study notecards often, so I don't think it'll be an issue.

Suggestions, advice, comments? Thanks. 🙂

 

[jerlikescats]

Could a mod move this please? I didn't realize that this was in the wrong sub-forum.

 

[RomanTaylor]

If you don't mind me asking, what was it about biomedical engineering that you didn't like?

I am majoring in that.

 

[jl lin]

Hello everybody, this is my first post (if I remember correctly) on SDN. I was wondering what you all think of my current situation. I'm going to try and keep it brief:

I attended post-secondary for software engineering for two years. I maintained a solid 3.8 throughout. Then I graduated and attended university for biomedical engineering. I maintained a 3.0 throughout but decided that I wanted to get out of engineering. I withdrew from BME and declared as a psychology major.

Will this pose any problems for me? I want to study neurology as a graduate student and my dad insists that I withdraw from psychology and declare as a BME again. I suppose I'm just looking for a bit of reassurance. I have several books on the MCAT and study notecards often, so I don't think it'll be an issue.

Suggestions, advice, comments? Thanks. 🙂

I mean I don't see why this is such a problem--the positive is that software engineering and biomedical engineering can be challenging programs--of course the downside is that they are challenging programs, and you moved to one that isn't considered as challenging. Really, though that's a little relative.

Why not neuropsychology? Really the worst part in my opinion is the money that was lost in the changes; but sometimes this is what people must do in order to get closer to what they are interested in.

Keep your GPA up and complete a degree. Do all the other stuff to have a full application, including taking pre-req's and taking the MCAT, volunteering, shadowing, or getting exposure to medicine, and then go from there.

If you are going to get involved in some research, that should should help your application.

Mostly I think you should study whatever it is that you are most interested. Just don't keep jumping around. It makes you look like you can't see something through or make a decision. Strong and sound decision-making skills are important in medicine.

The Best to Ya!